Improvement in revoking fire-cracker pistols



admired States aten-t @biblica JAMES H.- HAWES AND ORVILLE W. BROCK, 0F MONROETON, PENNSYL- VANIA, ASSIGNORS T0 JAMES H. HAWES.

Letters Patent No. 108,022, dated October 4, 1870.

IMPROVEMENT IN REVOLVING FIRE-CRACKER PISTOLS.

The Schedule referred to in these Letters Patent and making part 0f the Sam- To all whom fit may concern.-

Be it known that we, J Anus. H. Hawes and On- VLLLE NV. BROCK, of Monroeton, in the county of Bradford and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Revolving Fire- Cracker Pistol; and we do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description, thereof', which will enable others skilled in the art to make and use the same, reference being had to the accompanying drawing forming part of this specification.

This invention relates to anew anduseful improvement in a pistol for boys, and consists in a revolving chambered cylinder for discharging fire-crackers, constructed, arranged, and operating as hereinafter more fully described.

In the accompanying drawing- Figure 1 represents a longitudinal view of the pis-v tol, partly in section, showing the general arrangement of parts.

Figure 2 is a vertical cross-section of tig. 1, on the line x x.

Similarletters of reference indicate corresponding parts.

A is the stock.

B is the cylinder, provided with six, more or less, chambers, which is fastened to the stock by a central screw, around which it revolves.

The chambers are open to the outer surface of the cylinder, as seenin the drawing, and the cylinder is covered by an outer casing, O, which slides forward when the crackers are introduced.

D represents the crackers.

E, the fuses attached thereto, which pass through small opertures at lthe breech end of the chambers, as seen in the drawing.

0n the breech end of the cylinder is' a ratchet, F, with teeth g, corresponding, iu position and number, with the .chambers in the cylinder. These teeth g are distinctly seen in fig. 2.

Ehe cylinder' is revolved, in the -act of cooking or drawing back the hammer H, by means of the spring I. This spring passes into the stock, and is rigidly attached to the hammer, so that its other end, which is turned at arl-ight angle to engage with the ratchetteeth, is carried up as the hammer is drawn back. lhis motion of the spring is just'sniflcient to bring a barrel or chamber of the cylinder directly under the face of the hammer.

J is a piece of punk or touch-wood, connected with the hammer inany manner, which is lighted, as indicated in the drawing, for setting fire to the fuse E of the cracker'.

'lhe fire may be connmmicated to the fuse by a match-cord, attached to the hammer, and the punk 4may be confined in atube, and pass through the hammer, or in any other manner, as may be deemed best.

On the side of the pistol opposite the spring I there is a holding-spring, 1,.as seen in the dotted lines in tig. 1, whichholds and keeps the cylinder steady as the cracker is red.

K is the trigger, which is an extension of the hammer. The latter acts als a lever, which has its fulcrnm on the part of the spring I, which passes through the stock.

By pulling the trigger', the ignited punk J is brought in contact with the fuse E of the cracker, and 'so on for each cracker in .the cylinder as the pistol is cocked and the trigger is pulled.

Having thusdescribed our invention,

NVe claimas new and desire to secure by Letters Patent-v 1. The pistol A B C F H1', for discharging firecrackers,.all its parts being constructed and-operating substantially as sliown and described.

2, lhe sliding casing C around the chambers of the cylinder, substantially as and for the purposes described.

3. In combination with the hammer and ratchetwheel, the spring I, arranged to operate substantially as and for the purpose specified.

' JAMES H. HAWES.

O. W'. BROCK.

iVitnesses:

W. H. HAwEs, Gno.- Hawes.- 

